NATIVE LABOUR.
MANDATES COMMISSION SITTING (BY CABLE-TKESS ASSOCIATION—-COPIRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AKD N.S. AKD SUN CABLE.) (Received November 3rd, 7.50 p.m.) GENEVA, November 2. At the Mandates Commission sitting Mr Grimshaw, International Labour Officer, in a statement said the Native Labour Commission expressed the opjnion' that native labour should be paid for and only required for urgent necessary public works.
Natives employed on important works in the general interest should be compensatecF in accordance with local rates and should not be worked move than 48 hours a week and 60 days a year. The Labour Office proposed a' detailed questionnaire for the.draft convention, which may be discussed in 1930.'
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19149, 4 November 1927, Page 11
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